MewithoutYou - Julian the Onion lyrics

Logger Days, savannah
The menagerie packed it's trains
Left Bitter Root
Montana for those old Nebraska plains
Ticket sales were suffering now
With half the animals gone
But the circus kept it's course somehow
And the show continued on
Pitched their tents in Battle Creek
On a makeshift flatbed stage
With a draytop shotgun rhino's peak
And a black wrought iron cage
The barker sprung to action as
The band began to play
To introduce the new attraction who they'd
Picked up on the way

Julian julian
Julian the Onion who they'd picked
Up on the way ju
Julian julian the Onion who they'd picked
Up on the way

As I seldom mince my words
This poor boy's a walking shallot
Yes, it's shocking as you've heard!
From his lonesome, yellow childhood
So fantastically deformed
He was battered by his classmates
And sauteed like bantam corn
'Red Vidalias!' 'Valley Sweets!'
For twelve long, rotten years
If he so much as skinned his knee
The entire schoolhouse moved to tears
We found him where he'd sprouted
Plotting a garden coup d'etat
In a carrot stick and
Celery stalk manage-a-mirepoix
Now, feast your caramel eyes on the
Most savory sight in town!"
All his joking well-evoking peals of
Laughter from the crowd

But Julian julian
Julian the Onion was not
Laughing with the crowd julian
Julian julian the Onion was not
Laughing with the crowd

His jaundiced face was trembling
Beads of sweat began to fall
Down his oblong gooseback forehead
To his snuffed-out lantern jaw
His cut-shoot sprig of hair disheveled
His tiny fists impearled

And I'm not long for this world
Wooden dimes and quiet fears
Come curl your lips at me
But all perceptions are as mirrors
It's your own reflections that you see
So hide behind your laughs a while
Look handsome though you may
Oh, do enjoy that saccharine smile
As there comes for you a day"